Tag: ejabberd
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eJabberd “Cannot read schema”
Trying to start ejabberd I got errors such as these: 2017-09-01 00:35:06.928 [error] <0.37.0> CRASH REPORT Process <0.37.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: {aborted,{“Cannot read schema”,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,{error,{file_error,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,eacces}}}} in application_master:init/4 line 133 Turns out I made a very simple mistake; I had attempted to start eJabebrd with “systemctl start ejabberd”. However, ejabberd brings its own control […]
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Easy-RSA Jabber SSL Certificate Problems
I’m currently setting up a new server and ran into something odd. Connecting to ejabberd with Pidgin, the later would reject the SSL certificate outright. At first I thought I had messed up the hostnames, or used an outdated Hash algorithm or whatever. The errors I saw in the debug window were: (22:17:42) nss: ERROR […]
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Moving eJabberd
If you need to migrate ejabberd, you need to be aware that -at least on Debian/Ubuntu- it uses your machine name as the default nodename, or to be more precise, ejabberd@hostname. This can be controlled in /etc/default/ejabberd but unless you already knew about it, it’s a done deal already. So, my naive approach of just […]